What’s the hardest trick or glitch you’ve ever done? I wanna see if any of y’all wanna even ATTEMPT these.

The hardest trick is drinking coke and eating pizza and enter the final level with a heart rate of 85

Overcoming the muscle memory to instantly Retry after actually succeeding at a hard glitch.

12:24 “When this giant N U T is wet, it gains a strange property of being able to repeatedly be caught mid air” -lowest percent

I love watching the speedrunners react to actually performing the trick. They’re so excited and happy - even better when their twitch chat is up and you can see everyone cheering along with them.

i don't speedrun and never will, i just think pushing games to their absolute limit is fascinating.

Hardest trick is convincing everyone that you’re still a human and not a robot

I would say that “welcome to banjo-kazooie any%” has to be the best pre-ad cliffhanger I’ve ever heard

The hardest one is definitely when a particle comes from space and hits your computer at exactly the location where one bit flip gives you a big advantage. It's only happened once

"The nut jump is the hardest part of the run" *flashbacks to Tanner's mom getting it on like the first try*

20:38 Mikko has also performed carpetless without save states, but his video only has 13k views

This video manages to be 23 minutes while feeling like an hour long presentation, really amazing how many different speedruns you managed to cover here!

It's kind of inspiring that these tricks and glitches can be performed on new games as well as old ones. I'd kinda expect older games to be more glitchy and breakable, but apparently not, and it's good to know the weird hobby of speedrunning won't die any time soon

More people have walked on the moon than have performed the Wethertenko. Just something to think about.

4-2 is not where most runs die... At this point in smb1 any% there's pretty much 1 "tas-like" trick in each level, and 4-2 is the easiest out of all of them

Love the picture of Linkus' "speedrun" arm

Imagine someone accidently did the credit warp and though "wow that was a short game"

Love to see my Rainbow Road clip included! Great video all around.

The rainbowroad ultra shortcut was so insane that when someone got it, it even came on the national news in the Netherlands😅😂😂

Been binging this channel, and I love that the Carpetless section is so massively outdated. Speedrunners are unstoppable!

The speed run video when I’m watching it: 3:32 The speed run video when my parents walk in: 12:19

This video is literally just 'BUT WAIT. THERE'S MORE'

You can tell how much fun was had when talking about the giant nut

this video is SMOOOOTH! the way you carried out explaining all the speedrun tricks WHILE managing to make transitions in a way that I wouldn't even notice is marvelous, good work

21:12 I was half expecting "We're Finally Landing" to play.

I'm just imagining someone bringing out a guitar hero guitar and using it to do the superswim at the start of windwaker

“Oh, you are just a HUNK of a man, how’d you get so strong?” “I flick control stick to make guy go fast”

As I was watching this, so many tricks came to my mind. Almost all of it seems impossible to me, but there are several tricks that I've added to my arsenal over the years. For instance, I had no idea how to beat the boss rush towards the end of Shovel Knight in New Game+. For context, you have to beat all the bosses in the game in a row with no health items. After watching the AGDQ run, I mimicked the runner and ended up beating it after a few tries. I've also learned Castlevania, Super Metroid, Bloodborne, and Dark Souls speedrunning tricks over the years, since I play those games near annually. This was a lot of text just to say, you guys should make a video about the easiest or most accessible tricks. I think that would be cool.

I think werster’s HGSS all gold prints run deserves to be somewhere in the hardest trick. It would seem only he has done runs in that category, but his character movements and his personal actions he devised for the run require near perfect execution to maintain RNG manipulation for a large majority of the battle frontier. The craziest part of the run to me is around 8 hours in to his world record video. He has to do 49 battles for one of the prints, and there’s a modifier you can roll before each battle that can make the fight harder or easier, which occurs by pressing the right one as it scrolls through a bunch of different options. Not all must be perfectly selected, but at least half of these modifiers need to be perfect or else he can lose the run. Over 8 hours in. It’s wild to me.

The hardest trick is THAT jump at the end that's always easy in practice.

I love how this video is just like "Uff this trick is hard... but wait it gets harder."

I need more videos consistently on this channel. There’s never good speedrun channels.

The fact that minimum captures requires the nut jump and CRC's is ridiculous. Hats off to all of them

1:10 in and I’m already thinking “Imagine you are at a bus stop” like a true SummoningSalt fan

Speedrunners are so dedicated it wouldn't surprise me if they found a glitch in Zelda OOT where Link gets wrong warped into Peach's castle in SM64.

7:05 "It would take over 27,000 failed attempts..." Good God. I wish I had the determination in life to be that dedicated to ANYTHING.

It blows my mind people takes hours/days perfecting singular glitches and skips like these, the dedication is amazing

I remember hearing summoning salt talk about the rainbow road clip and I didn't know someone actually did it

While carpetless is now less insane glitches and movement, and is more oot style setups, it’s still absolutely ridiculous.

lesson : every nintendo major speedrun skip is insanly difficult or frame perfect

I love the excitement behind finding new tricks, when runners race to break the game down and find all the secrets and time saves

The hardest trick is getting someone to play with you for a 2-person glitch

Speedrunning is absolutely in the category of “cool and fascinating, but I’ll never try it myself”.

Thanks for the video, I loved it! :D To answer your question at the end, I really like to do glitches for fun ;) I only ever attempted 1 speedrun ever in a niche Mario64 category and got the world record on livestream, but that is the only exception and was glitchless. The most fun glitches I ever experienced are in the gen 1 and 4 pokemon games and Mario 64. If anyone ever wants to try out glitches, I recommend these games. The glitches are easy, harmless and a lot of fun, but the games also contain harder to perform stuff if you want more

it’s crazy how people are still making developments on a game that came out in 1985

this is just the TLDR of Summoning Salt’s entire channel

SIDELINES! This stuff is awesome. I love these videos, and the people grinding every day to find new ways to beat games faster are so dope. Personally, I have enough fun just playing the game. My days of obsessively working a game to death are long gone.

I don't count accidental one-off non-reproducable tricks as "speedrunning tricks" so much as flukes, so stuff like bit flipping don't count for me unless a speedrunner has done it deliberately. With that criteria, the hardest trick in speedrunning that I know of is the "Grand Memory Clobber" in Dragon View. It's been done deliberately by a human, so it counts as a "speedrunning trick", but it can't be reproduced in TAS, because it's so unlikely and not well understood.

A topic I would love covered is "How long has someone kept a WR"

I find it funny how this came out on the same day as terminal montages subspace emissary video, which features mario being possessed by a speedrun demon.

Ha, how crazy it is to see these old videos talk about Carpetless

Hey I really enjoy your videos! Thanks for making them :)

I was there when Sethbling first got the Credits Warp, and it's still the coolest thing I ever saw live on Twitch

I'm surprised Dragon view's "Grand memory Clobber" wasn't mentioned. It requires a deathless, saveless play-through of about 45% of the game. The first Boss, Piercia (a giant scorpion) has a bug in her death animation which dirties up a byte in memory, which isn't cleared. This dirtied byte is the catalyst for what causes the glitch, and is cleaned up upon reloading from a save, which means you only get one life per attempt. after you defeat a boss later on, you are go into a room and greeted by dragon spirits of some kind... except that they use that dirtied byte, and all hell breaks loose. the game will glitch up tremendously. you could wind up back in the first town with 0 HP, dying as soon as you exit your items menu. You could end up with a black screen with the game LITERALLY laughing at you. and since you lose control, you cannot retry this, since you have no save file, and even if you did, that dirtied byte would clear up, meaning you only got ONE shot at this, before restarting. but if everything ends up right, you can get the credits. fair warning, NOT EVEN A TAS was able to pull this off reliably. The person who found this glitch, PJDiCesare AKA theSuperSNES, deticated almost an entire week of attempts trying to get this, before getting it on his 24th clobber.

Thanks for using the Chrono Trigger OST as background for the intro. Gave me a lot of nostalgia

“It took over 26000 failed attempts” Geometry Dash Pro Demonslayers: You gotta bump those up, those are rookie numbers

15:40: That right arm is the result of the unbuffered super swim, right? 🤔😁

Can't believe Twilight princess small key skip got ignored like that

There is something so satisfying watching people just crush games perfectly at a fast paced.

"Prove youre not a robot" Normal people: easy Speedrunners: uh..

In New super mario bros wii a skip has been recently discovered in 3-4 allowing you to reach the normal exit without hitting the red switch on the world map, allowing you to skip the rest of 3-4, 3-5, hitting the switch and playing 3-4 again, potentially saving upwards of 3 minutes in cannonless. Sadly the skip is ridiculously impossible, two setups have been discovered, one involving using three players simultaneously and standing on ice blocks on each other's heads, and another involving carrying over koopas from earlier parts of the level, and then doing multiple back to back air enemy freezes with the penguin suit, and both of these setups have only been proven to be possible with tas.

One of my favourite hard tricks is the Highway 17 abh from Half-Life 2. Imagine endlessly scrolling your mouse wheel to jump while you fly at ridiculous speeds, making sure to hit slopes perfectly in order to keep yourself on the air and going fast enough to fly over the entire chapter. Oh, also, do that facing backwards so you can't see at all where you're going.

When you said "Ever since the Fall of 2019" I immediately went "oh shit what happened to 2019"

The hardest speedrun trick is getting a partner in life :(

people who watch SummoningSalt: WE HAS ALL THE NAWLEDG

The hardest trick I’ve ever done was the mine throw in Chicago Agent, Perfect Dark. You can save a ton of time (bringing the record from 1 minute plus down to

In MK64, there's a glitch in Kalimari Desert (1/9000 chance) that lets you clip through the fence. Basically, you need to go through the fence by using a mushroom, jumping, and hitting the middle of the fence. The hitbox is 3 characters long.

The saddest thing about this channel is you can’t produce content quick enough. It’s so so good and I hope you blow up into the speedrunning explanation channel.

Glitches are speed runners best friends

Honorable mention to the Triple Tiziano skip in Crash Team Racing, an incredibly difficult skip where in one of the tracks Papu’s Pyramid you must obtain 2 masks and make an incredibly difficult jump driftboosting up a slight incline off the track and grinding along the wall of another section of the track and trying to maintain enough speed to jump off a very small bump in the wall, followed by an incredibly precise jump across the track behind the finish line in a tiny zone where the game doesn’t have the out of bounds mask active and you can complete the full lap. The wall is actively trying to push you off it as well, so aside from incredible balance to stay on the wall you can’t go slow as you need the mask speed to make the cross-track jump.

Every time I hear "It's considered way too difficult to go for in runs", I just think "It's only a matter of time..." You know one day someone's gonna load up stream and say "I'm gonna grind it out. I'm gonna be the first person to [game]'s [category] speedrun with *[impossible trick]* no matter what!" 4,000 attempts later (let's HOPE it's only 4,000) they get it and then over the next month, everyone's doing it and soon it's just... part of the run.

A few corrections: You need an 11 pixel bump off the elevator in smb1 Mikko has performed carpet less, xiah isn't the only one

15:30 girls must love him

Soon enough, mechanical limbs are gonna be required to even BECOME a speedrunner.

Virgin Banjo Kazooie: Requires exact positioning and execution to clip oob and get into a level early Chad DK64: Walls don't actually exist lmao

15:12 I practiced my whole teenage life for this.

"What's the hardest trick in speedrunning" *thumbnail is a famously easy trick*

Super Mario 64. 4 minute TAS speedrun with the usage of Parallel Universes. That's never going to be on the human level.

Lowest Percent uses a lot of Chrono Trigger music, and I appreciate that.

The thing I love the most about speedrunning is glitches. I was able to perform teardrop in Dark Souls 3, but what killed me was the route. I can perform almost frame perfect glitches, but I can't kill a crab :)

Title: What's the hardest trick in speedrunning? Thumbnail: Endless staircase blj Hmmmmm

Everybody gangsta until no robot EVER can beat some speedrunner’s run

Hardest I've ever pulled off? Infinite equip werewolf in Skyrim where you transform on the same frame as talking to a follower. Hardest attempted goes to BLJ in Mario 64

Imagine doing wrong warp setups by abusing the game over screen. The steps include dying to an enemy, looking in a specific angle, standing in a specific spot, and accurately timing movement down to the half-second, but you're doing it blind with a hard 8 second time limit. That's Bell Sliding in Turok 2 Remastered, and you HAVE to do it multiple times during any%.

Definitely not some of the hardest, but the tricks used in Portal 2 runs are just cool to watch and satisfying to do yourself.

i love speedrunners because they take their valueable time to play the game they love and to challenge themselves to be better

Astounding. Top content, Lowest Percent.

My god, Linkus does so many manual super-swims that his right arm is actually more muscular

I have vague memories of when I was rather younger and my older brother's friend would use actual speedrunning tricks in games of Mario Kart Double Dash. I had no idea there was even such a thing as speedrunning back then.

Dude I've never really cared about speedrunning but I just binged all the videos in this channel

"An absolutely incredible feat today, and perhaps the standard for world records tomorrow." Cut to Niftski getting the Super Mario Bros. World Record a few days ago.

"when this giant nut is whet" sounds awful to my ears

haven't watched the video but probably the XD skip in Mario Odyssey

Well done video sir, a little surprised we didn't see any entries for Super Metroid in here. Many of the maneuvers used require "pixel-perfect" (or very close to it) execution and a theoretical "perfect run" requires you to do a lot of them throughout the whole run consistently without screwing anything up going full throttle for over 40 minutes (WR is just under 41 minutes). In comparison it's similar to attempting a carpetless but... you have to do that 4 times throughout the run in different places, plus all these other unforgiving tricks in-between. Also would love to see you do a vid on "unique" runs that don't fall under the main speedrun categories such as the "pacifist" run for Castlevania SotN and "reverse boss order" for Super Metroid. Those just boggle my mind that anybody ever figured out that it 'can' be done, and then went through the trouble of actually doing it.

"Which umbrella do you find yourself under?" The glitchless speedrun umbrella.

hardest trick must be listening to the same mario’s high pitched voice lines thousands of times over while staying sane

I’m a botw runner and I thought learning it was very hard but very fun.

11:11 BRUUUH RING RUSH HOLY SHIT After seeing his contributions to DK64, it's so cool to hear his name again

That on mission zero skip from GTA V , that whole concept is insane

Should probably point out that there's a trick in Red ball 1 called "Sub 20 Train" which is absolutely insane to pull off.